Canton Becker » Graphic Designs

The Asia Foundation wins Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award

Canton — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:56:03 +0000

Our work helped The Asia Foundation earn a prestigious Non-Profit Standard of Excellence Award in the 2010 Web Marketing Association WebAwards. Congratulations to the asiafoundation.org web team including David Hirschi, Donovan Watts, and Keith Mitchell. It’s notable that most of this award-winning design work was completed almost three years ago, proving that our work remains relevant and fresh long after launch-date.

This website is powered by our custom CMS which allows Asia Foundation staff to edit virtually every page of the website without any special tools. Certain areas of the website are seamlessly integrated with WordPress, YouTube, and SlideShowPro to take advantage of these industry-leading tools for news, video, and photo publishing.

Podcasting website for Future Primitive

Canton — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:19:57 +0000

Joanna Harcourt-Smith has been recording her interviews with visionaries and innovators for almost five years, so the most important part of this website redesign was to reorganize her 150+ recordings into topics and collections using WordPress. This also presented the opportunity to create a striking graphic design and logo to reflect the earthy and ambitious spirit of the project.

www.FuturePrimitive.org

To extend the reach and audience for FuturePrimitive.org, the website is now connected to Facebook, Twitter and Feedburner (email) so that followers are automatically notified whenever a new episode is broadcast. Furthermore, fans can embed individual episodes as streaming audio widgets on their own websites by copying and pasting a single line of code (as is done with YouTube videos). For example, the episode you see below was embedded by inserting this single line of code:

Website for Green Psychology

Canton — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:27:43 +0000

This website was designed for Jake and Hannah Eagle, co-founders of Green Psychology™. The content management system for this site is based on WordPress so that the client can easily update web pages, articles, and hosted discussions.

www.GreenPsychology.net

Being With Dying

Canton — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:21:49 +0000

Today we launched this simple elegant website to promote Upaya’s enormously important “Being With Dying” training program:

www.BeingWithDying.org

“The professional Training Program in Contemplative End-of-Life Care has long been dedicated to fostering a revolution in care of the dying. This unique program provides clinicians with essential tools for taking care of dying people with skill and compassion, as well as sustaining resilience and dedication as they serve others.”

Ottmar Liebert’s Redesign

Canton — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:44:09 +0000

The last time I did a complete redesign for platinum-selling flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert was in 1995. By 2008, he was ready for something new and fresh, something that pushed the envelope while staying rooted with his zen-sensibility for elegant, clean, functional design.

The jewel of this redesign is a environmentally sensitive home page which, if left alone for 10 minutes, gets devoured by weeds, vines, bugs…

This fairly huge project included:

SEO-friendly flash
A wordpress diary that goes back 12 years
A record label
An MP3 downloads shopping cart.

http://ottmarliebert.com

Beauty Through Balance

Canton — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:13:10 +0000

www.BeautyThroughBalance.com was designed and built for Shannon Plummer, the sole proprietor of a holistic health and beauty business in Santa Fe. Her new site was built using WordPress so that Shannon could easily update the site on her own. For example, she uses WordPress to add the health tip of the month. Visitors and customers can sign up for Shannon’s mailing list which automatically emails the content each tip of the month as it’s published.

http://beautythroughbalance.com

“I had the most wonderful experience working with Canton. He made designing my website fun and very easy. From our very first meeting, the entire process was quick, and understandable. During our work together, he taught me how to manage my website on my own which is so important for my small business.

Canton is such a great mix of many different qualities; he’s very technical, a great designer, easy to talk with and a wonderful teacher of his craft. I highly recommend his expertise to anyone!”

– Shannon Plummer, DOM

Back At The Ranch Cowboy Boots

Canton — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:34:15 +0000

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This design was for a vendor of high-end cowboy boots in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each of the 100+ boots was professionally photographed from five different angles so visitors could thoroughly explore each item in the collection.

You can see how the design looked when it launched in 2006 in the video below.

[See post to watch Flash video]

This design job was commissioned and later implemented (and updated) by the folks at studio x.